Multilingual Wikimedians

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List yourself under all languages you know. Tell us how well you know each language.

• Etoile - fluent, professional sign language interpreter
• dudtz-Learned some 9 years ago,but I dont remember.
• [ Caesarion Velim, non opto does NOT speak ASL but is fluent in using one specific gesture, which is very American]

• Tiles - read and understand spoken language.
• Caesarion Velim, non opto As a native speaker of Dutch, I can easily read and understand it, speak and write to some degree as well.

• Jeru - Third language, high school elective, also English, Hebrew and Spanish
• Vincent Ramos: I can read it but do not understand a single word. I love its sounds.
• ArnoLagrange salam alecum !
• Node I'm "fluent". What does that mean? It means nothing. Now watch me use my mad Arabic skillz: ليس لي فيلتان او بنتان اجملان في بيوتهم الهماران كبران. That means something along the lines of "I do not have two elephantesses or the two prettiest girls in the houses of the two large donkeys".
• Colin Brayton I have enough of a reading knowledge of Fusha to work as a translator (and to verify that "two she-elephants" are indeed the subject of the above). Asking directions in Marrakesh is another thing ...
• Ayman - native speaker
• Alif لغتي الأم
• Dudtz-I can only say God is Great

• Webkid - it's my mother tongue.
• Ogneslav - native speaker.

• Dudtz-Czechska Republika(Hope I got it right)

• Node 我不会说中文。你妈妈很好,弟弟呢?/我不會說中. 你媽媽很,弟弟呢?
• Vincent Ramos: 我也不會說中文。 我媽媽很好可是我沒有弟弟。/ 我也不会说中文。 我妈妈很好可是我没有弟弟。
• +sj+: My moms can "hui zhongwen" better than botha y'allz. / 'n don't you 'deedee' me.
• Shizhao 哈哈,我只会说中文。

• JoJan - native speaker
• Node can read it to some degree.
• Cat Native/near-native
• Phmagnabosco: Fair. Nederlands kan ik niet heel goed, maar ik vind het toch een leuke taal.
• Firefox - Native speaker / mijn moedertaal
• Eras-mus aka Erasmus aka Erasmus Eras-mus
• Caesarion Velim, non opto Native speaker.

• Vincent Ramos: just a very little bit

• Martinman11 can write and read rather well.

• Martinman11 Can write and read well. Still having trouble with spoken.

• Anonunit - I forgot which language I learned first: English, or Spanish?
• Jackjeff - second language. TOEIC 920.
• Moncay - second language.
• Optim: CPE (Cambridge Proficiency). Also Greek
• Pakaran native speaker.
• User:Secretlondon - native speaker
• Kev Frost - native speaker
• Jeru - Native speaker, also Hebrew, Arabic and Spanish
• Minh Nguyễn – co-native (is that a word?) speaker, also Spanish and
• Dudtz-Live/born in US, but I prefer to spell/speak British English.
• Briséis - fluent
• JoJan - second language, fluent
• JorgeGG - second language, fluent
• Biekko - second language, fluent
• JB82 (also JB82)- native speaker, fluent, also French and Spanish
• Vincent Ramos: rather à l'aise [oups] with this language
• \Mikez second language (not that good, though). Also Swedish (and a little German).
• ArnoLagrange by force
• Node This one was mandatory - and the first.
• Stork First foreign language... Rather fluent.
• Cat Quite fluent.
• Lockeownzj00 Native speaker.
• utcursch
• Chopinhauer, second language.
• Davidcannon, native speaker.
• User:Phmagnabosco: Proficient enough for pretty much everything apart from actually understanding Bruce Willis movies without the subtitles.
• de:User:Schuetzm, second language
• Webkid, second language
• Mattis Manzel, second language, speaks and reads it fluently. 8
• SaintNuclear - Second language - Reads and types fluently.
• Grunt - native language
• Ayman - second language
• Philipendula I understand Harry Potter ;-)
• iFaqeer Writer who thinks the phrase native speaker is anachronistic in this day and age. See [1] and also Hausa and Urdu
• Sesel - first and native language
• Taco Deposit
• Gangleri - I do my best ;-)
• Aperculum Learn in school, almost fluent now
• Gurmeet S. Kochar
• Ogneslav - second language - fluent;
• Andreas Pöschek - second language
• Aphaia - first foreign language
• Alif First foreign language.
• Joe native speaker. Fair Latin; fair Modern Greek but poor Ancient; a little Spanish; learning Arabic.
• Sundar - foreign language, but has been the medium of instructionor my formal education throughout
• Fibonacci - third language - fluent.
• en:User:Thryduulf native speaker.
• Martinman11 native speaker.
• Nichalp pseudo-native speaker
• Eras-mus aka Erasmus aka Erasmus Eras-mus
• DarkEvil Second language
• Dave
• Lord Bob, western Canadian English, native.
• Caesarion Velim, non opto to some degree, but as yet far from fluent. Btw I just don't like it; it's convenient, that's all.
• Hołek I'm still learing it.

• ArnoLagrange denaskulo
• Jeffy - native speaker (and this is how?--68.95.131.105 20:40, 19 Feb 2005 (UTC))
• Davidcannon; legas Esperanton kaj skribas pli-malpli bonete/malbonete; tre malpli lerta estas mia facileco de parolado.
• eo:User:Schuetzm
• Gangleri ekde 1978
• Etoile - native speaker
• Caesarion Velim, non opto Who... above me there's one percent of all native Esperanto speakers... well I er... can read it and produce simple sentences. Who's gunna help me elevate this level?

• Aperculum native speaker - I was born with it

See also: Liste des wikimédiens francophones

• Jackjeff - native speaker
• Briséis - fluent
• JoJan - third language - rather fluent.
• User:JB82 (also JB82) - second language, rather fluent, also English and Spanish/deuxième langue, assez couramment, aussi anglais et espagnol.
• Vincent Ramos: en tant que professeur de Lettres classiques, j'ai intérêt à être au point. Je pense ─ sans aucune modestie ─ très bien connaître cette langue, d'un point de vue synchronique et normatif autant qu'historique et linguistique. J'adore aussi les mots en [ik].
• ArnoLagrange natif
• Node J'puis lire la français, malheureusement j'n'y'parle ou y'ecrire pas mal.
• Jeffy - 3rd language, I am taught it in school.
• Stork J'suis français... Donc je le parle p'utôt bien. Crévindiou.
• DO'Neil J'suis Australien, et j'suis entrain d'apprendre le français. J'ai fait plusieurs pages, inclus morse et Australie méridionale.
• Aphaea un peu.
• Chopinhauer, I leave in France (Je ne crois pas que ce soit suffisant.)
• Phmagnabosco: Natif locuteur
• Mattis Manzel - cinq ans en ecole. mauvaix, mauvais. 4
• User:Grunt -- c'est ma deuxième langue. Je n'ai pas un grand vocabulaire français, mais j'essaye augmenter ça :)
• Philipendula -- Quelques années en école. J'ai traduisé Canicule 2003 en allemand: Hitzewelle 2003.
• Zanimum Je connais peu de peu de Français. Cependant, don't tout jeunes Canadiens? -- [[user:zanimum
• bdesham - un peu. Second language from high school; I'm reasonably good at it.
• Etoile - studied for eight years; currently pretty good with it
• Martinman11 Still sort of basic. Can carry on conversations well.
• Nichalp Long time non parle, c'est tres rusty
• Dudtz Je comprendre quelques Français
• Eras-mus aka Erasmus aka Erasmus Eras-mus
• DarkEvil Native speaker. Langue maternelle. Si vous parlez français, n'hésitez pas à me communiquer en français, au besoin.
• Lord Bob, second language, I get by.
• Caesarion Velim, non opto Strange language, not my cup of tea.

• Node can read it more or less.
• Caesarion Velim, non opto Can read and understand all of it, and write and speak it better and better.

• Caesarion Velim, non opto Read all of it, beginning to produce it actively, e.g. here

• Caesarion Velim, non opto Read most if it in all dialects, but far too problematic so far to write in.

• Moncay - native speaker.
• User:Secretlondon is learning, but is not good enough (yet) to write for de.wikipedia. She has managed to translate from de. to en., however.
• Briséis - fluent
• \Mikez - reads a bit, should not attempt to write it (anymore).
• ArnoLagrange die Sprache meiner Grosseltern mütterlicherseits
• Node My (main) heritage language, though I only speak a bit (I can read more)
• Cat Near-native in speaking and reading, but only average in writing.
• Aphaea - ZD gemacht; lesbar doch keine gute Schriftstellerin.
• JB82 - Ich kenne grundlegendes Deutsches.
• Chopinhauer, eight years in school. Not that good though.
• gabbe - Studied it for eight years in high school. In other words, I'm a novice.
• Phmagnabosco: Fluent. Als erste Fremdsprache gelernt bzw. studiert. Studien teilweise in Berlin abgeschlossen.
• de:User:Schuetzm - native speaker
• Mattis Manzel - native speaker, wrote two books in German. 10
• Philipendula Native Speaker
• Gangleri - native language
• Aperculum studied in school for few years, understand some
• Andreas Pöschek - native speaker, also Hungarian
• Fibonacci - fourth language, still learning.
• Martinman11 Basic, but learning
• Dudtz a litte-Vorchiet heiss waser doktor.
• Caesarion Velim, non opto Used to be more fluent in German than I was in English; not quite sure if I still am.
• Kaster - fluent speaker

• Optim: Native. Also, English.
• Etz Haim: Native. Also, English, French, and Ladino.
• Project2501a AKA George Marselis: Native. Also, English, Spanish, Spanish, German and Nipponese (Romanji script-mostly).
• Stefanos Kozanis: Native. Also English.
• Mavros: Native (cypriot dialect & standard greek). Also, English.
• Georgios: Native. Also, English, Spanish, and some French.
• REX: Native. Also, English.
• IliasZ: Native. Also, English (very fluent) and little Spanish.
• Joe: Learner. Good comprehension, poor composition/dialogue.
• Taramenos: Native Cypriot Dialect & Standard Greek. Also English.

• Vincent Ramos: I teach it along with Latin and French
• ArnoLagrange γνῶθι σεαυτόν
• Caesarion Velim, non opto Just a little bit.

• Node - Nañe'ẽkuaái avame.

• iFaqeer Born in Sokoto, I used to speak like a native till I moved, at age 15, to my parents' native home where Urdu is the lingua franca. Still try to read and follow on the Web. See also English[ and Urdu.

• Jeru - Native speaker, also English, Arabic and Spanish
• Node - I can understand written Hebrew to a certain extent because most words have cognates in Arabic. I cannot, however, write it, speak it, or understand it aurally.
• SaintNuclear - Native speaker.

• Vincent Ramos: can read it and recognize Sanskrit words
• utcursch
• Gurmeet S. Kochar: 10 out of 10 in speaking and listening, 5 out of 10 in writing
• Sundar - have learnt the language formally as a third language
• Nichalp – Second language

• Phmagnabosco: Very nearly fluent. A magyar nyelvet/irodalmat mellékszakként tanultam Párizsban (Sorbonne Nouvelle egyetem). Sajnos ma már nagyon kevés alkalmom van használni az interneten kívül.
• Andreas Pöschek - native speaker, also German. Anjanyelvem Magyarul és Német.

• Biekko - native speaker
• Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason - Hreinræktaður hátalari
• Gangleri - basic knowledge

• [[User:Eequor|ᓛᖁ ♀ ᑐ]] - can sort of read and write ᑎᑎᕋᐅᓯᖅ ᓄᑖᖅ

• Kev Frost Un po', ma tentaro di parlarla.
• ArnoLagrange lo capisco
• Vincent Ramos: je peux le comprendre et le lire (grâce au latin, au castillan et à l'étude générale des fr:langues romanes) mais pas le parler ou l'écrire.
• Stork: Capisco, parlo... benché sia la mia terza lingua.
• Cat Native/near-native.
• Chopinhauer la mia lingua "padre".
• Suhardian native speaker.
• Mattis Manzel il mio Italiano fa proprio sciffo, ma capisco. 4
• Aphaia Non bene, ma lo parlo poco e capisco simplici frasi.
• Fibonacci Prima lingua (però, è da un tempo che non lo parlo) - First language (but it's been a while without speaking it).
• Caesarion Velim, non opto Certainly I've got the basic skills.

• No deさんはJA:を編集するようにできる。
• Lockeownzj00 日本語は三年勉強しています。
• 鰤 aka britty :) 日本語は母語です。

• PuzzletChung Native.
• Martinman11 Very basic. Mainly stuff I learned from my martial arts training.

• Pakaran I'm working on it, and am going to buy the dictionary tonight. I expect to be hindered by the lack of native speakers to practice with though.
• Kwekubo Trust me: Klingon is a hooer of a language to learn. Nice to have a look at it, though...
• pne - added by Node.
• Dudtz-I know a few words.

• Vincent Ramos: confer supra
• ArnoLagrange scio ergo sum
• Stork: err... SHOULD be able to read it... I've been learning Latin for 6 years...
• Aphaea: lego et scribo parum
• Chopinhauer: I don't speak it, just read.
• Suhardian I understand it.But I'm forgetting it!
• Iustinus I speak it quite well for someone of our era. Frequent contributor to La:.
• Caesarion Velim, non opto Both actively and passively. Trained myself in actively using it during school days.
• Dudtz-I know a few words of Latin.

• Caesarion Velim, non opto Fluent in the Maastricht dialect, not a native speaker. Frequent contributor to li:

• Phmagnabosco: A good start. Aš tik siek tiek kalbu lietuviškai, bet mokėsiu daugiau, kada dar kartą vaziuosiu į Lietuvą.

• Briséis - native speaker

• Sundar - can read sparingly, and can make some sense out of it because of closeness to Tamil

• utcursch
• Nichalp – Can understand and read somewhat

• Node can speak it to a certain degree: he took 3 semesters of it at a community college. For this reason, he can understand the Apache languages as well to a certain degree. He understands it much better when written, however, and has some trouble with the tones.

• Mattis Manzel - studied for a year in Norway 20 years ago. Still reads it a bit. 3

• Colin Brayton: If you tell me the cat is on the table, I will stop looking for him. That is, I am in the early staging of studying it for reading ability.

• ArnoLagrange nie mowiem po polsku
• Chopinhauer moja mowa ojczysta (it's my native language).
• Phmagnabosco: Fair. Troszeczkę mówię po polsku, czytanie to nie problem... tylko słownikiem!
• Halibutt native speaker
• Karol Langner - second language
• Dudtz-I know some of the polish national anthem.
• Hołek native

Colin Brayton: Eu falo razoavelmente bem o português do Brasil e posso inclusive encher o saco de um português de Portugal, imitando o jeito de falar dele, mas quanto ao entender das letras de músicas de fado: Putz, esqueça cara! Trabalho como tradutor; moro no Brasil e no Brooklyn que a minha mulher é que é Tupiniquim.

• Phmagnabosco: Some knowlege. Gosto muito do português! Tem um som muito bom.
• Halibutt: some basics.

• Gurmeet S. Kochar: native speaker

• Danutz
• Gangleri - seccond language, I lived 25 years in Romania
• Gutza
• Irismeister
• Moby Disk
• Jmabel
• Ronline
• Zazen
• Dave

• Watcher: native speaker
• JB82 Я могу прочитать русского и понять некоторое из его. Я говорю на английскoм, франчузскoм и испанскoм языкe также. (I can read Russian and understand some of it. I speak English, French and Spanish as well.)
• Chopinhauer I understand it well. Go to Lockeownzj00.
• Webkid - I understand some dozens of words.
• Halibutt - I understand well and speak fluently (although it's rather a Pan-Slavic language than pure Russian)
• Gangleri - I learned it 8 years in school, had no chance to practice it
• Ogneslav - second language, quite fluent, though having trouble with cases. Please, if you only understand "a few words" or "start learning it this summer", better don't put your name on the list. Come back when you speak it.
• Dudtz-I know a little(More than a Russian in my school who lived in Russia for 5 years)I know some of the cyrilic such as:Mockba, Oиacho! and Росси́я,I can sing the Soviet and Russian anthems.
• Lord Bob, third language, not good at all. I've all but given up on my Russian.
• Caesarion Velim, non opto Ok, a tiny little bit.

• Node can speak Okinawan to a certain degree. He knows a few words in some of the other Ryukyuan languages, however this is usually limited to greetings.

• Vincent Ramos I studied it at the University and can read Devanāgarī
• utcursch

• Node can understand it to a certain degree. Has some experience handling the language.

• Anonunit - I think this was my first language.
• Jackjeff second language. good comprehension. lack of practice in speaking and writing
• Moncay - second language, only basics.
• Pakaran I can get by, I'm obviously not native, and my reading speed is only around 150 WPM
• Jeru - Fourth language, also English, Hebrew and Arabic
• Minh Nguyễn – third language; taking courses in school; also English and Vietnamese
• JorgeGG - native speaker, also english
• JB82 (also JB82) - third language, rather fluent, also English and French/tercera idioma, bastante flúente, también inglés y español
• Vincent Ramos: mi apellido es Ramos
• ArnoLagrange l'entiendo un poco
• Node was near-fluent at one time, but is now limited to understanding written Spanish, a small amount of spoken Spanish, and being able to speak and write mediocre Spanish.
• El Jefe It's my second language, I lived in Spain for 8 months and then 2 years later, I chose it as one of my options in School.
• Stork: I understand it quite well... Speak it too.
• Lockeownzj00 native speaker. You'll notice I have native speaker for English as well. Technically, it's true for both--I was born in Spain but moved to America when I was young. I can understand almost all Spanish and speak pretty well too, but from my years in America, my Spanish has suffered...
• Phmagnabosco: Bastante bien, si tengo algunos días para adaptarme...
• Halibutt: Third language, rather fluent (Spanish Studies Faculty).
• Sesel: reading and writing knowledge
• Taco Deposit
• Alif Puedo leer y hablar un poco.
• Naryathegreat I can read and write well.
• Fibonacci Segundo idioma (pero lo hablo mejor que el italiano) - Second language (but I speak it better than Italian).
• Martinman11 alright. studied it from 1st to 7th grade (American school system).
• Dudtz our school forced it on us insted of French(Much easier for me)

I never understood conjugation.In my opinion,Spanish is a lousy language but,thats just some others and I.

• Caesarion Velim, non opto O quit about it... well, if you put a knife on my back, or a gun, I can produce it, but not properly. Read all of it, however.

• \Mikez Native, but the english and german lessons have made some damage to my ability to spell correctly:)
• gabbe Native
• Mattis Manzel, bad Norvergian pretending to be Swedish, 2
• Aperculum Had to study in school, know some

• Sundar - native speaker

• Vincent Ramos: bir biraz

• iFaqeer Officially only educated in English, learnt Urdu from my parents and because of a strong affinity to Urdu poetry and living in Pakistan for 10 years. See also English and Hausa.
• Wisesabre 04:21, 22 September 2005 (UTC) educated in urdu[reply ]

• Minh Nguyễn – co-native speaker; learning to write in this language; also English and Spanish.
• Minh Trần - native Saigon dialects; high school diploma in Alberta (to be exact it is 5 semesters); also some Japanese (Alberta Japanese 30).

Thryduulf - by no means fluent, but I hope to be.

81.224.167.16-se e.g. cy:Cymraeg

I copied this nice page on community-wiki: multilingual community-wikizens, introducing a self-evaluation there (1 = almost no language skills, 10 = good native speaker).

MattisManzel 09:54, 29 Aug 2004 (UTC)

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